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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

geode.apache.org

memgraph.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

memgraph.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2002

2017

1980

1994

Current release

1.1, February 2017

23c, September 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes, on a single node

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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